good morning. it is thursday, july 26, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. the suspect in the colorado shootings allegedly mails a letter outlining his deadly plot. john miller has the latest. >> i'm erica hill. president obama and mitt romney disagree on gun control. plus, how the drought is driving up food prices. i'm gayle king. north korea reveals its new leader is married to a pop singer. and golf great phil mickelson will be in studio 57 today. but, first as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. there were some writings about shooting people and some

very rudimentary images in there of a shooter and victims. >> authorities investigate a possible message from the accused colorado gunman. >> james holmes sent a package to a university of colorado psychiatrist. >> filled with details about a plan massacre, including illustrations. >> discovered in monday afternoon in the mail room. >> a lot of gun owners would agree that ak-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not criminals. >> i'm in favor of the second amendment. >> mitt romney in britain for a >> the american people are not real concerned about tax returns. >> mitt romney going to be in london for the opening ceremonies of the olympics. he plans to take his tax returns, drop them into the torch. skydiver felix baumgartner is back after leaping from the edge of space. >> scaffolding gave way. a death-defying high wire act in las vegas. an unusual rescue near

sacramento, california. a bull fell into a well and was stuck for hours. cal ripken, jr., his mom was missing for more than a day. an armed man abducted her from her home. it is a foul ball. he has no idea it's foul until right now. >> all that -- >> tell me you're not going to -- >> you tell me to -- >> grow up. >> don't tell me to shut up. >> a judge has now appointed michael jackson's nephew as the temporary guardian of the late singer's three children. >> there's a huge fight going on. a lot of noses bent out of shape. >> on "cbs this morning." >> north korea's leader is married. >> congratulations to kim jong-un and his new wife, katie >> congratulations to kim jong-un and his new wife, katie holmes. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning."

investigators in colorado are looking at what could be a key new piece of evidence in last week's aurora shooting rampage. >> suspect james holmes sent a package to one of his graduate school professors allegedly detailing his plans to kill. anna werner is there where he's being held. >> good morning, erica and charlie. sources say that package contained pages of handwritten papers from holmes. first reports suggested that it had sat unattended for some time. the university now says that's not true. the university of colorado denver medical school is disputing reports that a package allegedly sent by james holmes to a professor sat in the school's mail room untouched days ahead of last friday's shooting. in a statement, the school confirmed that it received a suspicious package. but that it arrived on monday and that was "immediately investigated and turned over to authorities within hours of

delivery." the building was evacuated while the aurora bomb squad dispatched a robot to screen the package. sources say the package contained handwritten papers that holmes addressed to one of his instructors who is also a psychiatrist. in the documents, they say holmes talked about shooting people and even included crude drawings of a gunman and his victims. >> gamers might feel they have a super power. >> video from 2006 shows holmes years before the shooting giving a presentation at a science camp. aurora officials are under a strict gag order, unable to share information about holmes or the case. but observers like hal sherman say the evidence could provide valuable information. >> the fbi has different people they have the behavioral science people and they're able to potentially look at the writing and discuss and see if it's ramblings of somebody of a coherent. what is their background? what is their education?

>> after looking through holmes' apartment for days, investigators turned the building back over to resident last night. crews boarding up windows says holmes' residence which was once filled with a string of booby traps is virtually empty. >> there's still a few personal items that the public defender is going to get out. the police and the fbi and the atf already took all that stuff out. >> some of the rivictims in the case have no medical insurance. they're facing huge bills. three hospitals have announced they will help with that. they will limit or completely eliminate the medical bills for many of these victims. that started yesterday with children's hospital of colorado which says that it will be eliminating bills for the uninsured by using donations to cover those bills. some good news coming that victims desperately need. back to you. thank you very much. john miller joins us now. take a look at this new evidence.

what does it tell us? how unusual is it? what do we read into the fact that he might have sent this and perhaps other things? >> i think it may not tell us as much as we expect in terms of -- the burning question is motive. but we have found, without knowing the content of these writings, we found in these cases that even when the unabomber wrote his monday fess toe or the videotapes for the oklahoma city bomber, they aren't clear to us. don't know what value it will have there. the other conflict here is when did they get it and when did they find it. the earliest reports on this quoting law enforcement forces said it was sent as early as july 12th. those reports seem to exceed the calendar a little bit. it appears it was sent sometime before the shooting, maybe just before the shooting. but the university is very clear that it a arrived there on monday. police investigators were

already there looking for something. >> in terms of who was sent things, the fact that this was a psychiatry professor, is there anything to glean from that or is it simply a coincidence, you think? >> i think there is something to glean from it, but i don't think we know what that is until we get further into his head. which is hard to do in this circumstance. typically in a case like this, they may send communication to the one person who they thought understood them, an a lie or in the case of a person who dropped out of the program there, a person they call their nemesis but we don't know. >> in terms of motive, where are they? are they baffled by this or is it more clear each day? >> you know, that's a fascinating question. we have to divide our interests from theirs. police are much less concerned about motive than we are. we are story tellers for a public that wants to know why this happened. motive is not an element of proof in the murder case.

juries want to know it too. it's good to have, but they're also not on the deadline we are. they're going to look at everything and come to a collective decision on that over time. but it's interesting when we talk to them, saying any more understanding, any more information. they're like no, but we're still going through it. >> motive, not but intent is. intent is. in this case with a complex plot, so premeditated and multilayered, it's going to be very hard for anyone to argue that wasn't intent. >> in the presidential race, both candidates are talking about the colorado massacre and guns. president obama said laws are not strict enough while mitt romney says enforcement is the problem. >> i don't happen to believe that america needs new gun laws. a lot of what this young man did was clearly against the law. but the fact that it was against the law did not prevent it from happening. >> i, like most americans, believe that the second amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear

arms. but i also believe that a lot of gun owners believe that ak-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not criminals. mitt romney met with tony blair and current prime minister david cameron where jan crawford is. good morning, jan. >> good morning, charlie. romney started his day meeting with the former minister, tony blair. he's only one who romney will be meeting. in these conversations, he's stressing the unique relationship between the u.s. and the uk and this common concern for peace and a stronger economy. later on today, he's going to be coming here to number 10 downing street to meet with david cameron. incidentally, cameron gave a speech this morning and he talked about the need for stronger trade between the u.s. and europe. so you can expect that that will be a topic between these two men when they sit down later today. tomorrow, romney has more meetings and then he'll be attending the opening ceremonies

of the olympics. he told tony blair this morning that he hopes to take in a swimming event but he's not going to see his wife's dressage horse competition. >> i assume that is very important, ann, when you're mitt romney to say to these people, i'm here to understand, i'm not here representing the government. >> that's right, charlie. his aides have been very careful to stress that he's here, as they put it, to listen and to learn. again, today we heard from romney in some of the meetings saying he is not going to be criticizing the president or the president's foreign policy. i think it's also important to point out that his aides say, look, this is not the high-profile trip that barack obama had when he came here in 2008 to the uk and to europe. they're not looking to recreate that phenomenon as they say they're here, as we've been discussing, to listen and to learn. >> jan crawford, thank you so much. with us now is political director, john dickerson. john, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what can this trip do for mitt romney?

>> well, first what it does for him is it allows him to go in front of people and look presidential. he wants -- even when he says he's not going to be critical of the president, that's being diplomatic on the foreign stage. showing that he can play the role in stage craft that a president needs to play. and then also he gets to visit the olympics, which allows him to talk about that very important part of his resume. one of the untouched parts of his resume that even the obama administration can't criticize. >> can we read into what romney has said in his speeches, the principal difference between his foreign policy and the president's foreign policy? >> not really. as he said, he's not going to be making a lot of distinctions here. what we know about their differences on foreign policy that romney is more hawkish, has more kind of 1980s view of russia and he is saying the president has been weak in terms of america's role on the international stage. he's also talked about this idea of american exceptionalism. very loaded phrase, saying that

he believes in america. that, in fact, is the slogan of his campaign. when he's not overseas, that's been his message on foreign policy. >> "the new york times" has a piece today that i found fascinating. what romney is doing in europe and on to israel is trying to help define himself. at the same time, negative campaigning is trying to define the candidates in terms of their opposition. how do you see that and how are they using this media and what are they saying about the other guy? >> well, this idea of believing in america that's part of -- been a long time part of romney's campaign. they're both basically trying to say the other candidate is out of touch with the american experience. the polls have shown and you talk to voters, they think something has gotten unhitched from the american dream. what both candidates are saying is that the other guy doesn't know how to get us back on track. because they just fundamentally don't understand your experience. so barack obama on the trail, he talks about going across the

country with his mother and grandmother, staying at howard johnsons as a way to say i'm like you, i understand your experience. romney has been talking about the president's remarks about small business, saying he just doesn't understand what you're going through. he doesn't understand the entrepreneurial spirit. so no wonder his policies won't work. it's a way to try and get it really fundamental views about america and say that the other guy doesn't understand those views. >> john, real quickly on that small business front, of course the president's line about small business owners not building that business has gotten a lot of place in the romney campaign. is this working as an attack line for them? >> it is working in a couple ways. remember, a couple weeks ago, there were a lot of republicans fidgety about mitt romney. this shows him back on offense. he brings small business owners out and points to them. they have passionate stories about pulling themselves up by their boot straps. those are the kinds of stories that mitt romney isn't good at telling. we don't know how this plays out in the polls, but it's got the president's campaign a little

bit back on their heels. the president has put out an ad saying of course he supports small business. the romney campaign is back on offense after being on defense for a few weeks. >> the president was saying, if you look at the full context, he was talking about building roads to these businesses, they didn't build the roads. the romney campaign is trying to say they didn't build the businesses. >> exactly. what the president is saying is it takes a village. no matter what you've done, you've been helped in your life, by teachers or roads or the policeman on the corner. the romney campaign is saying that the president has a kind of -- if you look at the totality of his remarks, everything he said, he sort of says that small business owners have a kind of inflated sense of what got them there and that's what the romney campaign is playing on. this idea that the president is -- the president is good at striking a cord a lot of times. here he's touched april nerve saying to entrepreneurs, you think you've done too much. well, other people helped you too. that's the heart of this. >> john, thank you so much as

always. >> thanks, charlie. this is the hottest year on record in the united states. we're also seeing the most widespread drought in 70 years. >> rebecca jarvis has new information about how it's affecting food prices which people may be starting to feel. >> certainly they are, erica and charlie. good morning to you. we are seeing the first signs that mother nature is sending food prices higher. nearly 1300 countries -- rather, counties, in 31 states across the country have been declared natural disaster areas due to the excessive heat and drought this summer. 88% of the corn crop has been impacted by drought conditions and farmers are seeing unusually low yields and exceptionally high prices. corn is a key opponent in everyday foods and of livestock feed. any increase in the price is going to hit you in your shopping cart. now, the usda forecasts that by next year the drought could cause meat and dairy prices to

soar. beef could cost 5% more, dairy could jump 4.5% and poultry and egg prices could increase up to 4%. as the u.s. is the number one exporter of corn, the rest of the world is watching, hoping that our weather conditions here improve in the heartland because as we know erica and charlie, food is at the heart of uprisings, at the heart of revolution. when we're a major supplier of it and there's a shortage, there can be major problems and a ripple effect across the world. erica, charlie. >> rebecca, thanks. you mention two at the top. corn. what about other produce, fruits, vegetables, dairy. how is it affected? >> it has yet to be impacted. irrigation plays into how those things are farmed. as a result, we haven't seen them impacted as much and they're rising with regular food costs at 2%. >> one little bit of silver lining. thanks. one thing is growing like mad,

that's the insect population. in our next half hour, we'll show you how that's actually good for other pests as well. we'll take a look at what's being done to keep the critters under control. a showdown is looming in syria's largest city, aleppo, after battling government troops for six days. rebel troops claim to have the upper hand. the assad government is rushing reinforcements to aleppo, including helicopters and attack jets. it's rare for a western reporter to get into syria. it is difficult to establish communications once they're there. clarissa ward filed this report just south of aleppo for us. >> syrian tanks pulled out of this village yesterday and residents tell us that they are thrilled to have their liberty. but look at the scene that was left behind. people here told us that helicopter gunships swooped in here on thursday and obliterated this entire street and just look at this crater. this is a result of those rockets slamming into the earth.

it will thaik take the residents of this village years to rebuild the damage that their own army has done. even their newfound liberty is not guaranteed. those tanks only went to join the battle that is raging just north of here in aleppo and if regime forces manage to crush that rebellion, you can be sure they'll be back here soon. >> time now to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. the wall street journal reports members of a russian spy ring in the united states plan to recruit their children into the family business. that spy ring was broken up two years ago. u.s. officials say one child had already agreed to his parents' request. the pittsburgh post gazette said penalties against penn state could have been much worse. trustees say the ncaa wanted to shut down its football program for up to four years. after former coach jerry sandusky was convicted of child sex abuse. the board of trustees agreed to accept lesser penalties rather than risk the so-called death penalty. the baltimore sun reports on the search for a man who briefly

kidnapped cal ripken, jr.'s mother. she was taken in her car and hours later she was dropped off on her street unharmed. prominent swimming coach took a leave of absence wednesday because of accusations of a sexual relationship with a teen swimmer. it allegedly took place in the '80s when the girl was 13. he's accused of paying a $150,000 to keep it kwee et. skyscraper workers at one world trade center bringing back memories of a 1932 photo of construction workers sitting on a 69th story beam at new york's

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he launches one deep to left. >> you're watching carlos gomez hit what he thought was a long home run against the phillies yesterday. he went into his home run trot. made it all the way around the bases. turns out, though, it was a foul ball. oh, well. good dress rehearsal, right, charlie? >> that was the victory walk. now he realizes at this moment, oh, no, i got go back to bat. >> maybe next time. felix baumgartner jumped more than 2500 times from planes and skyscrapers. his biggest leap to break a 52--year-old record. >> as mark strassmann report, baumgartner made a second successful test jump. mark, good morning. >> good morning, erica and

charlie. all along felix baumgartner and his team have been training for three big jumps. yesterday, as you said, they did the second and final big test jump before the absolute biggest one next month. you'll hear startling numbers about how high and how fast the human body can fall and survive. felix baumgartner strapped into a capsule wednesday and rose by helium balloon miles above roswell, new mexico. he jumped from 96,000 feet, that's three times higher than cruising jetliners. he spent four minutes in free fall. his top speed was 536 miles per hour. he landed safely in the desert. >> felix has landed safely back to earth. >> since 198 this 43-year-old austrian base jumper turned skydiver made a series of improbable jumps like this one in rio after the statute of the redeemer. this 2007 plunge in taiwan from the 91st floor of the taipei 101

taller, then the world's tallest building. in the mohave desert, he's trained for his greatest leap of faith. so high it's out of this world. a free fall dive from 120,000 feet. that's 23 miles above earth. >> i think i'm born to fly. >> you ran out of tall buildings. >> you never run out of tall buildings. but it's the same thing over and over again. because how many highest building in the world's you going to do? i have to find something else. >> think about falling 120,000 -- think about where the space shuttle got rid of booster rockets. you can easily see the curvature of the earth an the blackness of space. it's a hostile environment. the air so thin, so cold, it's a near vacuum. baumgartner's equipment, especially his pressurized suit, is his lifeline. >> is the mental part harder than the physical part? >> i think it's a little bit of both. i also had a hard time to spend a lot of hours in the suit

because as soon as -- you're in your own little world. you can only hear yourself breathing. it's hard to breathe. i couldn't stand in the suit for a long time. i needed help from a psychiatrist to get over those feelings. those claustrophobic feelings. >> back in march, he successfully test jumped from 71,000 feet, that's 13.5 miles high. with each higher jump, 96,000 feet yesterday and 120,000 feet sometime next month, the danger rises with the altitude. an instrument panel built into his suit tracks his vital signs, his heart and respiratory rates monitored by his red bull stratus team of scientists on the ground. >> everybody thinks about these things. but the little details could kill you. >> in his practice jumps, baumgartner needs to master his falling technique. fall wrong and his body could get out of control. air dynamic forces could spin his body like a top, up to 240

rotations every minute. his only hope of survival is a stabilizing chute. >> you have to pass the test to reach the next level. >> there's little margin for error. >> everything is based on the technique that we have developed the last couple of years and my skills. at the very end of the day, if something goes wrong, i have to pay for it. >> in 1960 air force captain joe kittinger jumped from 102,000 feet, 19 miles high. still the highest, fastest and longest skydive on record. baumgartner wants to top that record with help from his training partner and mentor, joe kittinger, now 83. >> the threat are the same. >> think back to your jump, 1960, how different was the equipment? >> i compare it driving a model t ford and felix a 2020 ferrari. the danger is still there. that hasn't changed a bit. felix will be going through the same thing, except he's going to be four miles higher.

>> so high, baumgartner could be in free fall for 5.5 minutes. he'll feel temperatures, including windchill, of minus 148 degrees. his top speed could reach 690 miles per hour. and you become the first human in free fall to break mach 1, the speed of sound. >> you're crazy right? >> german is pretty good, i'm impressed. >> why? >> i love the challenge. that's the reason why i became a skydiver. as soon as i was a skydiver, i was hooking flooking for a chal. we should be ready for the big one based on all these jumps. >> this is not a crazy stunt for publicity. nasa is following it carefully. with each jump, baumgartner is trying to advance the science of survival in high altitude. >> records are made to be broken, as we know. why has it taken so long for

this one to be challenged? >> charlie, it takes a lot to pull this off. when joe kittinger did it in 1960, the air force was involved in the space race, they were trying to figure out how to pull this off to catch up with the russians. it's taken a long time to pull together the right guy to do it, the team of scientists to do it and the money. red bull put $20 million into this thing. it takes an awful lot to pull off a stunt like this. >> it's a remarkable relationship between the two of them. >> when you think of it, kittinger could selfishly trying to hang on to his record. but instead he's training with baumgartner, helping him pull it off, and pull it off safely. >> you get the impression that the danger is -- >> it's enormous, the risk. i can tell you, i jumped once from 13,500 feet and the world looked pretty small below me. 120,000 feet, 23 miles above the earth, curvature of the earth,

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>> if you think the drought is bad for just the farmers, think again. gazillions of crawling critters are at this very moment seeking shelter from the hot and dry conditions within your yard or even your house. in iowa, michael toole of aaa pest control is a busy bee. >> the insects are being driven inside because they're looking for coolness, dampness, someplace to get out of the sun and out of the heat. >> oklahoma has a particularly creepy problem. >> the heat will incubate the eggs and they will lay eggs and produce hundreds. >> he's not talking about chickens. >> down in here, you'll see a white egg and underneath the egg is the black widow. >> in california, voracious grasshoppers are dining on shrubs and driving homeowners nuts. >> they're everywhere. they're just everywhere. >> you have ticks in missouri and crickets in texas spurred on by the hot and dry conditions

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even know that leader kim jong-un existed. now they find out he's married to a pop star. the first lady was announced in a way only north korea can. it was far from the circus of a royal wedding. but news of north korean leader kim jong-un's marriage was carefully orchestrated. state tv introduced ri sol ju as the wife of the young totalitarian. >> we've obviously seen the reports. we would always wish any kind of newlyweds, you know, well. >> and took twitter by storm. including the fake account under the moniker kim jong number un. if it seems sarcastic, that's in part because so little is understood about the idiosyncrasies of this country

that rattled world leaders with a failed rocket launch. for weeks there were questions about the mysterious woman on video to a kindergarten and at a recent concert much the new first lady had her own pop career. north korean list michael auslin wonders what this public marriage signals about a regime that has long kept its first ladies in the shadows. >> might have had a marriage to another political figure's daughter. but instead, he went with a singer. so you have to ask the question, was it a love match? >> the concern about north korea's nuclear arms is far from a laughing matter. a state department official says the image and a recent reshuffling within the military may be part of the campaign to cement control of the impoverished state. two-thirds of the country's 24 million people now face chronic

food shortages according to the u.n. >> i think the likelihood is very low if we're looking for a pyongyang spring. i think we'll be disappointed. >> and kim jong-un's new policies may really mask old ones. officials here at the state department say there's no signs so far that north korea will stop selling arms or return to party talks to end hostilities. charlie and erica, back to you. >> margaret, thank you. imagine stopping a spacecraft going 13,000 miles an hour and doing it in just seven minutes. some fantastic new video for you this morning which gives millions of people an idea of what that is like and we've got it for you ahead on "cbs this morning." >> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by purina. your pet. our passion. mornings are a special time for the two of you...

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listen to this. a recent survey found out women are more satisfied with life than men. [ cheering ] of course most of them are just taking it so they won't hurt life's feeling. >> that's all right. you don't really want to hurt anybody's feelings ever. >> i'm gayle king. i'm charlie rose with erica hill. nas a. betting seven minutes of terror will help -- >> it's the title of a viral video promoting a mobile space lab scheduled to land next weekend. as bill whitaker reports, millions have already taken the ride. >> the vehicle is alive or dead on the surface for at least seven minutes.

>> it's like something out of hollywood. but these out of this world images are brought to you by nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. launched on the internet last month, these computer-generated images of the mission now hurdling towards mars are the hottest thing ever on nasa's website. almost 2 million views of a never before attempted landing using this hovercraft called a sky crane to gently lower the one-ton rover curiosity to the martian surface. it takes seven hair-raising minutes. >> if any one thing doesn't work just right, it's game over. >> in making the video, nasa tv producer john beck, has launched the space age into the digital age using entertainment to generate buzz about science. >> this mission is the coolest thing i think we've ever done. >> he says the appeal is not the dazzling machinery, but the brilliant minds behind it.

like the early astronauts, these jpl scientists are the heroes of nasa today. >> these are the hans solos. these are the space jockeys behind the rover mission. they're real people with real fears, real vulnerabilities. that's what the audience wants to see and engage with. >> animator, kevin lane, when he heard about the wild ideas for landing the rover, he couldn't believe his ears. >> i looked at him and said they're going to do what? >> the detail was amazing. >> he drew to jpl's exacting specifications so viewers would believe their eyes. >> they're getting informed without realizing it. that's what i was aiming for. >> nasa's production values have come a long way since voyager 2 in the '70s. it's a thrill ride. especially the high stakes landing. the parachute with the largest and strongest super sonic ever built today has to be able to

withstand 65,000 pounds of force even though the parachute itself only weighs about 100 pounds. >> the seven minutes of terror is also the amount of time scientists will be biting their nails waiting for the continuous radio signal to cross millions of miles signaling success or failure. >> i know when we get that signal, i know a lot of people are going to be crying, i'm going to be crying. >> nasa is hoping for the blockbuster success of the summer. they're already working on the video game version. for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker in pasadena, california. >> fascinating footage. looked like it was done by steven spielberg. >> it does. what a way to get your attention. seven minutes, i've never been on the nasa website. >> i have not either. >> you haven't either? >> i don't feel so bad. i know charlie's been i was thinking. now i'm thinking i would like to see that. that's fascinating stuff. >> wild to think about. >> it makes you one more time in awe of scientists.

>> and the job they do. >> we did a lot of stuff last year of course on the final shuttle. i spent some time at space camp. gayle, i know how much you love smart interesting kids. >> i do. >> one of the things fascinating to me, they weren't concerned about the shuttle program. some of them were so focused on the next frontier and on mars and all of the things they can contribute to for research on mars and beyond that i imagine they, in particular, will be watching this closely. >> there's also the fascination about how long it takes things

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>> the daily news says michael jackson's mother lost guardianship of the children. michael's nephew t.j. jackson was named temporary guardian. in the latest twist in the jackson family feud over michael jackson's estate, can you say drama, they claim their grandmother was kidnapped by jackson's siblings. paris jackson tweeted that her grandmother has come home. thank you, god. 24 point bold type underlined. the wall street journal says your summer vacation may not cure your work-related stress. a survey of thousands of executives and employees found 58% get no stress relief from their vacation. 27% feel more stressed after a break. only about 9% were able to completely unwind on vacation. >> you just came back from vacation. how much did you watch the news, erica? >> i didn't turn on a television for ten days. i took a break to be refreshed

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awarded through it went to overseas companies. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. right after the colorado massacre, thousands of people news website, reddit.com.social a user who was wounded uploaded some of his photos. >> the pictures have been viewed some 60 million times. alexis o'hanian, the co-creator of reddit is with us now. >> thank you for having me. >> what made this such an opportunity for reddit? >> you know, the reddit has consistently grown over the years. it turns out sports fans have been using reddit to keep real time updates going about sporting events that they watch together. this just happened to be the first major news event where there were critical mass of users all paying attention to

this story and submitting and contributing to what they were perceiving as what was going on. >> go ahead. >> it turns out that some of the information alexis when it came in was false as happens in stories like this. are you concerned there's not a way to regulate that? >> well, it's tough. we saw a few years ago everyone said twitter was revolutionizing journalism. today is reddit. and then it will be some other site. they aggregate primary accounts. but they need to be taken with a ton of salt. what i want to see more of, though, is actually less of a rush from large news organizations to sort of be first. we saw just recently an important supreme court decision that two major networks got it very wrong. it was reading text off of paper. >> cbs was not one of them. >> cbs was not one of them. the internet, whatever tools people are using are always going to win on speed. what i want to see is we'll know that we'll get a lot of data. not all of it will be accurate.

that's what journalism is for. >> when you look at what's happening today, tell me what it is is must-viewing, must-seeing for you? when you get up -- >> you know i visit the front page of reddit. >> given. >> that's for communities that interest me. we're getting ready for football season. i'm excited about rg3, i'm diehard redskins fan. >> finally some hope in washington. likewise, world affairs and all -- everything that's going on right now. syria, for instance. i'm a little jaded about u.s. politics these days. >> because? >> i'm still reading it. but it's tough. because whenever i turn on my tv, i see so much of the same kind of rehashing as we anticipate coming up in november. >> let's take a look at the economics of social media. i mean, there are reports today that zynga may very well not have the earnings report expected. some people say that might also influence facebook.

>> i mean, they are different businesses for sure. i think zynga has been trying to convince people to continue that insane growth that they've had. gaming, it's not that guaranteed. likewise, facebook, the hope is that they can continue to grow interest and grow desires. this user base hits a billion people. the challenge of all these sites, it's a challenge for reddit and any user-driven site. the community is where the value is. you can't keep users around. they will go. these are the challenges. >> the values of the community and the question is how do you build on the community? >> how do you keep them engaged and continue to grow but most importantly keep those users coming back. >> you think that social media especially has tapered off in a sense? it has reached some kind of limit of how many people it can continue to keep engaged? >> what's interesting is we've had -- we're approaching a billion people on facebook. that certainly looks like a ton of people. we're still seeing plenty more

activated as more and more people get connected online. as long as the innovation keeps coming. last month it was pinterest and in another few months it will be something else. we haven't reached that final end point for it. i get so excited every morning. here -- i'm 29 now. >> at the age of 23, you're a multimillionaire when you start this. you said it wasn't your desire to be rich. you had what you said a waffle housey pif any. >> you were going to go to law school. >> you love a waffle house? >> yes, charlie. have you tried the hash browns? >> syrup on them? >> you have to. >> i was an undergrad at uva in my third year. i was decided whether or not -- i was talking lsat prep courses and my buddy and i were in the middle of one of these and we

got up and left because we wanted waffles more than law school. i realized if i was going to be spending money and time, i should be want to be a lawyer. in the end, i wanted to make my dent in the universe to paraphrase, jobs. that's what i feel like i've been trying to do. i try to temper that success with the knowledge of knowing, i've been kind of living my life on cheat codes in a lot of ways. i take -- i take good stock of the fact that i was born with this life lottery ticket. born into a middle class loving family as a white male in the u.s. >> ovarian lottery. >> exactly. i didn't do anything to deserve that. i ended up with it. one of the things that excites me is the internet is this platform for a ton of people to achieve and succeed. i keep that in the back of my mind every day. >> what's the next big idea? >> that's what i was thinking. >> i can't tell you guys. i'm trying to invest in it. >> what's coming? the question is for you and everybody else is how do you monetize? >> yes. >> that's one big idea.

>> the cloud is the future i assume. beyond that? >> geez, i left my crystal ball at home. i will say this. one of the things, i hope to -- i launched a travel site. there are lots of companies right now winning base on user experience. any time you're frustrated, know that there's probably some geek somewhere trying to make your life better by reinventing it. >> you said nerds need to be in the room. >> you've never told the figure about how much the acquisition was that you made. you have this opportunity now. >> you have ten seconds. >> a lot of stuff is googleable these days. i'll leave it up to you. >> good to see you. >> you don't need the internet for this important news. phil mickelson is here. çi

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competition. >> at the olympics a big soccer team. it's against france. u.s. fell two goals behind and then scored the next four. the americans play colombia saturday in their quest for a third straight gold medal. welcome back to "cbs this morning." golf great phil mickelson is here with us in studio 57. he's won four grand slam titles and was just inducted into the world golf hall of fame. he and his wife founded the exxon-mobil teachers academy helping teachers understand math and science. i'm pleased to welcome phil mickelson here. >> thanks, charlie. >> what you're trying to do, you and amy with respect to math and science and where does that come from? >> we're passionate about math

and science. we understand the important role that it plays in keeping america great and helping us compete on an international scale. we've fallen back in those areas. in fact, we're not even to fulfill the jobs in math and sciences. if we can get more college graduates into math and science, we can have more job opportunities. more than that, we just feel like we've got to change the moment momentum. it starts at third through fifth grade. we've partnered with exxon-mobil to create this teachers academy where we give the third to fifth grade teachers techniques to inspire their kids into math and sciences, hopefully keeping them interested throughout the rest of their educational experience. >> how is amy? >> she's doing great. she's here with me today. she's going to come with me over to the jersey science center and see the teachers during the academy. >> how is phil's golf game? >> the last two months, charlie, i haven't played my best. i've spent a lot these last five

days trying to see what's going on. i think i've identified a couple of things. one of the biggest areas, charlie, mentally i haven't been focusing as fine as i need to. i've been letting where i don't want the ball to go kind of creep in, in my head as opposed to where i want it to go. >> mean you want to keep it in the fairway. >> and swinging with a purpose, playing with more of a purpose. i've been a little lethargic the last two months much we've got some big tournaments coming up. in the next nine weeks i'm playing sen of them. this is an important stretch. i've been working hard to turn it around. it's been a fun challenge. >> you went over to the british open. you had more time practice before than you ever had? >> i played at the scottish open too, yes. >> did that help or hurt in the end? because you didn't make the cut. >> i played well at the scottish, not the british. sometimes you need a few events

to look back and find out what's going on. one doesn't always do it. if i look back over the last couple of months, it's easier to identify where i've been going off. i haven't played with the same purpose, the same intention whether it's approach heading into the golf tournament or whether it's on each individual shot. that's what i'm going to try to focus on these coming months to get this back on track. >> what makes a difference? if phil has a great tournament or doesn't make the cut, is it your mental -- is it all in your brain? >> not always. but sometimes. sometimes it can be a mechanical breakdown. but for the most part, i've been hitting a number of good shots. i feel like the bad shots have crept in not because of a mechanical issue as much as a thought process issue. >> you've got very good coaches including butch harmon. what do they do for you that you don't already know? >> i love butch. butch has a great eye for the

swing that he's able to easily and quickly identify what's wrong and what to do to fix it. >> how do you come back from something like the british open? you saw what rory didn't have a good british open either but he came back from a disaster and won a grand slam. what does a player have to do to come out of a bad either tournament, especially if it's a big tournament? >> surprisingly the difference between winning and the cut is not as great as on paper. over my 20 years career, there have been a number of times that i missed the cut and won the next week. a lot of it has to do with changing your mental outlook as opposed to any mechanical issue. >> you told me you were watching bubba watson on this program. >> i was. >> he was explaining what he did at the masters. then you were explaining to me the difference for a lefty and a righty and the difference in terms of if you're hitting a hook or a slice. >> we were talking about the shot he hit on 10 in the

playoff. a lot of this gets back to science, charlie, believe it or not. a left-handed player hitting that shot that bubba hit on 10 is able to close the face and get a better gripping on the golf ball to create that amount of side spin that he had. whereas, there was much more deflection, say, if a right-handed player was trying to open the face to hit a big slice. a lot of times it will slide up the face and not get enough grip, not get enough spin and so the science of that shot allowed bubba or left-handed players to hit that shot much easier than, say, a right-handed player who would have had to open the pace. >> is the game today more competitive than it's ever been? are there more good young players than ever which makes it even harder to win? >> yes. it is much more global sport and much better players at a younger age. however, there's still an element of experience that will allow players like ernie els who just won the british open to come out on top.

guys that have won major championships, been in the thick of it, were all in contention at the british. there's still an element of experience that allows you to play a golf course a more effective way. to hit shots that some young players may not have been exposed to this early in their career. that's oftentimes can be the one or two stroke difference between winning and losing. >> adam scott has a great swing. he works with butch. whose swing do you most admire other than your own? >> well, i thought one of the best swings i've ever seen was fwhak 2000 when tiger was dominant. i thought from a mechanical point of view, it was as perfect of a golf swing i have ever seen. >> yet at the same time, since then he's been trying to change it for one reason or the other. >> that's true. more than an aesthetically pleasing golf wing, it's understanding your swing to take out half the course much you have to take out one side of the course or other. everybody has something different that they must do to eliminate half of the course.

you can't play effectively if you don't know which side you're going to miss on. if you know that it's going to be on this side, the one side or the other, it's much easier to play aggressively and swing confidently. one quick answer, one answer. your favorite course in the world? >> it's augusta. for a couple of reasons. one, the history is there. i i've won there. masters. yes. i've actually won my third green jacket in 2010, which was emotional having amy be there. the reason i also love it is i can go out with a 15 handicapper and they always can finish the hole. they're never taking out of the hole. there's not bunkers that they can't get out of. there's not rough that they take four or five swipes and can't get out of. they always can advance their ball and finish the round. they injoy it. the course is fun and playable for the average player. for a good player, it's challenging to score low. i think that's the sign of a great course. >> and great greens. >> very challenging greens. >> always good to see you. thank you, phil. >> thanks, charlie.

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award winning author, gillian flynn's latest novel is already being called this year's best thriller. the dark disturbing gone girl has spent six weeks on "the new york times" best seller's list. gillian flynn is with us now. great to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> sort of sucks you in. twisted. there weren't enough scary women in fiction. >> yeah. >> i am pro scary women in fiction. i feel like there's a lot of over the top scary women. there's a vampy soap opera villain he ises. as soon as they unsettle you and make you fear for your life, i

don't think there are a lot of those in fiction right now. >> that's one of your gifts. >> yeah. >> let me just say that amy is very scary. i was up until 4:23 wondering how it was going to turn out, what is she going to do, it's one of those things, especially if you're married, it makes you look at your spouse and say how well do you know a person? were you trying to scare all married people? how is your marriage, gillian? >> you know, i did want to write about the dark side of marriage. my first two books had unattached narrators, they couldn't make a connection at all. i wanted to go the opposite way, which is what happens when you try to be with someone for life. in this case, very bad things happen because of that. >> they were both unlikable. do you think? >> i special in unlikable challenging narrators. i like that. to me, i don't read because i want a hero narrative. i read because i want to see how

people think and poke around in people's brains and psyches. to me, the more challenging and strange and odd a person is, the more interested i am. >> i got to follow-up on gayle's question. how does your husband feel about all of this? >> it takes a big man when his wife comes to him and says, honey, i'm going to write this thriller about the darkest side of marriage and i'm going to poke around in it and everything, he did not blink an eye. he said go for it. do it. don't censor yourself. >> your marriage was not really an inspiration? >> thank goodness, no. >> just to clarify. >> that would be very sad. let's give people an idea of what it's about. here's amy, nick. celebrating their fifth anniversary. as they're celebrating the anniversary, there's clearly issues and amy disappears. then it's off to the races. you think phil may have murdered amy. then you take us where? >> then you -- you're inside

nick's head for a while and wondering if he did it. >> thinking about phil mickelson. >> sorry. >> you're inside nick's head for a while. you're kind of going it's him and then amy's journal entries, this love affair, everything is wonderful going up to the day she's missing. they're dueling narrators. they're dueling. each wants you on their side. they're manipulative. i kept switching back and forth between the two. i like what erica was saying about your marriage, though. you're down writing this stuff. where are you? >> we have an old victorian house in my house. it's in this tiny basement layer underground. >> so i'm picturing you, gill yap, in the basement and writing some twisted things. but it's very, very well done. very well done.

so you come upstairs and then do you just have to make a switch between that's that and what i have is this? >> i mean, i absolutely do. all day long in this dark despairing marriage, this toxic, toxic marriage, spewing this kind of anger and i can hear my husband come home from work upstairs. and so we have a saying at home which is leave the crazy downstairs. >> i like that. >> leave the crazy -- put it on the table. i usually shut down and to cheer myself up, i watch like a dance number from singing in the rain to kind of -- that's my palate watch gene kelly dance a little bit and go upstairs and be a normal person. >> i see a movie. >> i do too. this must make you appreciate your husband a little bit more and what you have. >> absolutely. i like our marriage because, i mean, we talk a lot. when we have arguments we reverse engineering. wasn't it crazy when you said

this and why did we do that? a lot of that helps to create gone girl. i couldn't have done it without my husband, actually. we are able to kind of talk about that side. every couple has that give and take. gone girl is to the extreme. >> that's what marriage is, lot of give and take. the ending i thought satisfying and disturbing. twas that your intention? >> unsettled. >> mission accomplished. >> mission accomplished. >> congratulations. >> thank you. gillian flynn, the name of her book is gone girl. it's on sale at wherever you like to buy your books. what could be more timely than a movie mocking american elections? we'll ask director jay roach who inspired the campaign. he's next on "cbs this morning."

his latist movie the campaign stars will ferrell and zach galifianakis will do anything to win. >> that's my baby to kiss. >> excuse me. >> excuse me. you don't take a swipe at my hair. >> ♪ ♪ >> oh, gosh. >> why are we laughing about a baby getting socked in the face, jay roach sm. >> it's a movie. >> that's what -- that is so true. you clearly do it with humor in your movies. welcome jay roach. >> you clearly do it with humor.

i get the sense there are issues that you're trying to raise about politics these days. >> well, what's going on is crazy. i think sometimes it's therapeutic to poke fun at it. it helps me. i get worried about how the campaigns go these days. so we just got two of the funniest guys on earth to go at each other and sort of kind of tap into the sort of spirit of the crazy negative campaigning that's going on. we make fun of it. my kids are afraid of monsters. i show them monsters inc. it helps sometimes to laugh at stuff that scares you. that's what we were up to. >> i don't know if this helps that's afraid of politics. if you show them this movie. >> i think when you all -- when you watch jon stewart or the so colbert, you're all laughing together. i'm not the only one who thinks this is crazy. other people do too. >> is it automatic that will and zach would be good together?

>> it is automatic. those two guys are two of the funniest improvisers, smartest men alive. i also had seen them pick on each other in funny ways. we just thought if you can find the right arena to pit them against each other, it would be hilarious. that he wanted to work together and we said politics, come on. that's what's going on. >> i'm thinking, was there a lot of improvisation on the set? i'm thinking with the two of them, there had to be and how hard it is to direct that. >> it's fun. i've worked with a lot of great improvisers. we have a good script to start with. they come into the writing room and improvise as well. it's sort of writing and improvisation throughout the whole thing. you can see in the film, i mean, a lot of it is very free, very crazy. that can only happen when they're sort of just going at it on their own. >> how do you know what's funny sm. >> i don't -- i never know. that's what's so terrifying about doing comedy. you never quite know. the audience tells you finally and we preview a lot. if it makes me laugh, i'll say

do it again. if it doesn't, move on. >> if the audience doesn't laugh in the previews, you change it? >> oh, yes. it's kind of like adiner conversation. if i'm telling you a joke and i'm sensing you're not liking it, i'll speed it along or change the joke the next time i tell it. >> exactly. >> you've been quoted as saying that politics is painful but politics is also very funny. what's the painful part? >> it just seems like it should be different. i mean, it seems like politics would be about learning what a candidate wants to do with the country and now it's so much. i was reading on "the new york times" today that some huge number of negative campaign ads are running like thousands of them. they're all negative. it's sort of depressing sometimes. again, our approach is just to try to make ourselves laugh about it. >> it's always been interesting to me that politicians are fodder for late night comedians. >> sure. >> it is because, in part, that it's a common reference for

everybody. >> yeah. it's true. we all tune in to the same debates or the same -- nowadays, the same gotcha moment or something gets sent around virally. but i think that's also why comedy helps. because, again, you share the reaction to it. the sense of the absurdity of what's going on. >> politicians now feel that they have to be part of it. they have to go on programs, saturday night live or letterman or leno, jon stewart. >> try to be funny. which is sometimes really painful too. >> everybody says they don't want negative campaigning, but yet, voila, there it is. >> it's smear or be smeared. your opponent smears, you better smear first, preemptive strike kind of thing. the whole science of turning a good thing into a bad thing. the spin doctor thing. i talk about these films as sort of my resume pieces to someday

make my own political ads. >> thank you for [ woman ] thursday. finally.

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